Extraordinary Devastation

9 December 2012

Egypt's Mohamed Morsi was forced to rescind parts of his earlier decree that gave himself unchecked powers. Turns out he's a little too fat for the Egypthian python to swallow. He and everyone else who thinks power grabs are a good idea ought to take a good hard look at this slideshow from Syria and see what can happen to a country when a repressive dictatorship refuses to yield. The last photograph in that series is especially shocking.

P. J. O’Rourke on a surreal Russia, Terry Glavin on the Kurds, Carl Gershman and David Kramer on the Ukraine crisis, Gordon Chang on Taiwan’s vote against Beijing, Andrey Tolstoy on the Kremlin’s war of ideas, and more.